Thread cleaning device



Nov. 21, 1939. 5. HYSLOP THREAD CLEANING DEVICE Filed March 12, 1958 W ZX a Patented Nov. 21, 1939 UNITED STATES CLEANING DEVICE Samuel Hyslop, Newton, Mass.

Application March: 12,

, ,3 Claims.

This invention relates to thread cleaning devices for use on winding and spooling machines and the like, for-removing objectionable imperfections from the thread, and the invention aims to .provide an improved, novel device, having, among others, certain advantages hereinafter recited. 1 r

Of the embodiment-of my invention illustrated and described herein:

Fig. 1 is a front elevation;

Fig. 2, a vertical section on the line 22 of Fig. 1;

Fig. 3, a plan, partially broken away;

Fig. 4, a partial elevation showing a modified form of thread cleaning member; and

Fig. 5, an end elevation of a still further modi-' fled form of cleaner member.

My novel thread cleaner, Figs. 1, 2, 3, comprises a body, or back-member, I, with a suitable and convenient means, as a slot 2, for receiving a supporting rod or bar 3, on a winding machine or other member, and towhich rod the device may be locked as by a screw 4, extended downwardly from the top of the member I.

The body I has a depending flange 5, which, as well as the body, is provided with an ear 6, which carry thread guides 1 of desired construction.

The body I, Fig. 2, is chambered at 8, to receive a swinging clearer member support or bracket 9, 30 pivoted to the body I, as by a screw or pin Ill.

The cleaning member support is shown, Fig, 3, as provided on its front face with laterally extended'arms ll, having a lint-removing passage 12 between them, the arms having at their outer ends each a narrow vertical flange l3, slotted as required at Ma, Fig. 1, to receive and position against displacement the inner ends of the vanes or wings 14 of the hub-like cleaning member l5.

The cleaner members l5 are substantially cy- 40 lindrical in shape, before they are fluted and finished, and of such diametrical measurement that,

positioned side by side, they-substantially equal and fill the space between the axial centers of their bearings, the screws l6; which they are drilled longitudinally to receive. The screws l6 preferably have a socketed head, and are turned in or out by a suitable wrench, not shown, usually in the possession of the mill superintendent. Y

The cleaning members are provided with as many wings as convenient and desired, each of a different radial measurement from the member center, and therefore with its outer edge of different distance from the vertical plane midway of the two bearing centers l6.

55 Therefore, to provide a thread path between 1938', Serial N0. 195,556'

them, the wings are finished a stated number of thousandths of an inch, or any other unit of measurement adopted, shorter than their full normal width.

Hence, the sum or aggregate of the units repre- 5 senting the thousandths of an inch each wing of any two cooperating wings is shorterthan the full radial measurement will determine the width ;-of the thread path between them.

For convenience, each hub is marked on its 0 outer end, Fig. 1, at the base of each wing, the measurement, in the units -l'l adopted, that it lacks of being full width.

As an illustration, Fig. 1, the two cooperating and opposed wings are respectively three and five 15 thousandths of an inch short, so that their sum,

8, is the width of the thread path between them.

This can be instantly changed by loosening the particular screw or screws l6, required, turning the cleaning members to position the wing or 20 wings necessary to provide the desired width of thread path, for instance, 9 thousandths, and again locking the members in position.

Again, the device is usually provided with pathforming hubs of such dimensions as to give a 25 mill owner the extreme sizes of thread path he needs. 1

Of course, the minimum and maximum width of path may be fixed by any number provided within the circumferential area of the cleaning 30 element. If necessary, additional elements may be provided, constituting an expanding range of limits from one hub to another.

In Fig. 5 I have shown a hub with eight vanes, which, with a cooperating hub of the same number of vanes of difierent radial measurement, may be combined to form a large number of combinations. Obviously, these elements cannot, on

' account of their small size, be shown at scale herein. 4

This device can be made narrower than if the path-forming elements were positioned to rotate horizontally, and that is an advantage in some cases, The thread-cleaning edges are also longer, providing a longer path for the thread to travel 5 in, which is also an advantage.

The space indicating characters, being on the ends of the cleaning members rather than the top, are not liable to be covered with dust from the thread, and the numbers rendered indistinct.

Should a mill owner wish a cleaner for the smaller thread sizes only, say 1 to 4, he may be furnished with the hubs shown in Fig. 4, where one hub has a wing corresponding to the full wing width, and which, with vanes of 1, 2, 3,

and 4 sizes, respectively, will give him the limited number of sizes desired. Such a one-wing hub may be adjustable, or not.

The hub with one wing only can, of course, be made and sold at less cost than the others, and will always provide a combination desired, within certain limits.

My invention is not limited to the precise construction shown herein, but may be modified in many details, without departing from the spirit of the claims, and within the scope thereof.

I claim:

1. A thread cleaning device comprising a back member with means for securing it to a support, an opening in the member and a bracket movable through said opening; substantially cylindrical, Winged thread cleaning members adjustably and axially secured to and forwardly projecting from said bracket, the thread cleaning wings being of difierent radii and difierent distances from the wing thread paths equal inwidth to the sum of the distances between the several wings and said plane.

2. "A thread cleaning device comprising a back member with means for securing it to a support,

an opening in the member and a bracket movable with means for securing it to a support, a cleaner member carrying bracket on the body, with member axially centering means thereon, thread cleaning members axially centered on said centering means with a lint removing channel between them, and said cleaning members comprising hubs with radially extended wings, each wing a different width and a different distance from the opposite centering means, each wing having identifying characters indicating its distance from a point midway between said axial centering means centers, whereby the sum of ,7

any two indicating characters oppositely positioned will equal the width of the thread path formed by their wings,

SAMUEL HYSLOP. 

